I don't think computers will have any important effect on the arts in 2007. When it comes to the arts they're just big or small adding machines. And if they can't "think," that's all they'll ever be. They may help creative people with their bookkeeping, but they won't help in the creative process.

Keep in mind this is three years after the first Macintosh shipped, which revolutionized desktop publishing. More in Byrne's wheelhouse, it was also three years after Sound Designer was released (which would later become Pro Tools). Dire Straits had released their Money For Nothing video two years previously, which showed the promise of computer animation to a mainstream music audience. In short, things were happening!